Rangie 6x4 Pickup

[Sleeping Dog]

here are more images and the story, sort of http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/crew-cab-range-rover-pickup/

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/10/ebay-find-of-the-day-1980-range-rover-6x4-custom-pickup-is-full/

 

[laurie-the-lorry]

Or how to make a couple of good looking trucks into one Ugly beast... Yuk

 

[Mr. Leary]

Why?

Not all the axles are under power?

Why not pull a trailer?

It certainly will not win any beauty pageants. I don't have a clue as to its functionality... but it would look much cooler as a half track setup, IMO.

 

[haven]

The Ebay listing is here
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Land...ewItemQQptZUS_Cars_Trucks?hash=item518ed0c4e5

The bidding ends Dec 13.

 

[sami]

that is horrible

 

[benlittle]

Ewwww...

 

[stu454]

That's kind of like sleeping with an ugly chick. It'll get you to the same place but there are so many better ways to do it.

 

[Mr. Leary]

That's kind of like sleeping with an ugly chick. It'll get you to the same place but there are so many better ways to do it.

(Some of my lunch is now on my keyboard!)

:snorkel: :jump::xxrotflma

It can also be equated to riding a moped around town. It can be fun... as long as nobody finds out!

 

[Christian]

Looking at this:

And driving this:

I cannot help but wonder how much those rear tyres scrubs/rubs the asphalt when turning with that kind of wheelbase between axle 2 and 3...

 

[LostSoul]

I just threw up in my mouth

 

[toyota_jon]

That's kind of like sleeping with an ugly chick. It'll get you to the same place but there are so many better ways to do it.

I think that sums it up pretty well. It was obviously built for a purpose (apparently toting around a balloon) but i can think of many better ways to accomplish the task. HOWEVER... I would take the back half and make a sweet trailer out of it!:ylsmoke:

 

[michaels]

take a look at it like this....

cut off the frame after the rangie ends, and you have a rig with a 90* departure angle. modify the front to match and slap some bigger tires on it and lockers and you have an extremely capable trail rig that can drive to the trails.

THEN turn the truck bed into a trailer and you can do rockcrawling expeditions!

i can still see value in that pile.

 

[benlittle]

That hunk of **** isn't even worth discussion.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

rovers are ugly enough... but this one takes the cake.

On a side not, neat concept, and I respect the hours of work that went into it.

 

[spacer]

Just looks like someone welded the trailer to the back of their truck.
Looks afterthought-ish.